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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Trotter, Alys Fane

OLD COLONIAL HOUSES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE:

[illustrated and described; with a chapter on THE ORIGIN OF OLD CAPE ARCHITECTURE by Herbert Baker]

Published: B.T. Batsford, London, 1900

Edition: First edition

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viii, 16 pages of text, xxxiv leaves of plates: illustrations, frontispiece, plans. Quarto. Pictorial cloth, some wear to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.  Plate xxviii bound in as frontispiece.

Trotter (1863-1961) lived at the Cape from 1896-1898. She explored the Peninsula on a bicycle, sketching and recording what she saw. Her drawings, writings and archival research awakened in others an appreciation of Cape Colonial architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the need for its preservation. Herbert Baker's chapter on the origins of Cape architecture indicates, as became more apparent with genealogical and wider research, that whilst Dutch influence was important, German and Scandinavian influences were also brought to bear on designing buildings at the Cape.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 32 x 26 cm
  • Sold By: Select Books
  • Contact Person: David McLennan
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 021-4246955
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Credit card; EFT
  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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